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SHE ONCE declared that “acting is a way of living out one’s insanity” but she has also called acting “a desire and a need, like eating...I’ve never blushed at any of the films I've made. I’ve been very lucky.”

IN FRENCH, ‘nouvelle vague’ refers to daring, iconoclastic, films made in the 1950s and 1960s by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. In English, ‘new wave’ was music by bands like Blondie and Joy Division.

Movie-lovers in Kilkenny should brace themselves for a re-showing of some of cinema’s nailed-on classics this weekend in a festival that promises to be a cinephile’s paradise.

Galwegians who long to see cutting edge and avant garde cinema will be thrilled to hear that the city is about to host a festival of such films which is set to be the only festival of its kind in Ireland.

EXPERIMENTAL AND avant-garde films fall well outside the mainstream but cinema goers with an ‘open to anything’ attitude can discover in them a whole new world of movie going and come away with new perspectives and a hunger to see more.

There has been a positive welcome for the news that final approval has been given to the €4.4 million project to provide an Art House cinema for Galway. However one local election candidate said the move “prioritises film buffs ahead of families and children”.